The push notifications came vibrating in this afternoon: “The Zika virus is a global emergency,” the one from The New York Times said. “World Health Organization declares Zika to be global public-health emergency,” read The Wall Street Journal’s.But the declaration — of a “public health emergency of international concern” — wasn’t exactly for Zika, a virus spread by mosquitos that recently came to the Americas and has spread at an alarming rate.

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